and then have the fact published to all the world–it is the personification of meanness.

–it makes you sheepish and causes you to lose confidence in others, as well as in yourself.  Lying haunts you in your dreams, and plants a bed of thorns all along your pathway.

more than they want.  They are supposed to know when they have enough.

very many, poor persons who strive to succeed, but fail from a lack of ability–probably from other circumstances over which they have no control.

–the time may come when you will be as poor as the proverbial “Job’s turkey.”

–if a person drags his feet he will be slow and slouchy in every thing he does.

simply because you do not know the truth, and would rather believe a lie than be without a belief.

—airs and ass both begin with an a.

unless you are a counterfeit expert.

–the odor of the smoke passes into the cars and annoys passengers.